POETICAL WORKS

of

W COLLINS, THO GRAY, AND DEBEATTIE.

with LORD BYRON'S HOURS OF IDLENESS and

English Bards & Scotch Reviewers.

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CONTENTS

TO COLLINS'S POEMS.

The Life of Collins

ORIENTAL ECLOGUES.

Eclogue I. Selim; or, the Shepherd's Moral

II. Hassan; or, the Camel-driver

III. Abra; or, the Georgian Sultana

IV. Agib and Secander; or, the Fugitives

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The Passions. An Ode for Music

An Epistle to Sir Thomas Hanmer, on his Edition of

Shakspeare's Works

Dirge in Cymbeline

Ode on the Death of Mr. Thomson

Verses written on a Paper containing a Piece of Bride-

cake

An Ode on the popular Superstitions of the Highlands

of Scotland